From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 7 05:00:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA14990 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 05:00:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from chippie.cgu.nl (chippie.cgu.nl [145.101.220.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA14981 for ; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 05:00:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from psd@cgu.nl) Received: from localhost (psd@localhost) by chippie.cgu.nl (8.8.7/8.8.7/psd) with SMTP id OAA18606; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 14:03:12 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 14:03:12 +0200 (CEST) From: Paul Dekkers X-Sender: psd@chippie.cgu To: Dan Busarow cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: replace linux by freebsd? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 5 Jul 1998, Dan Busarow wrote: | On Sun, 5 Jul 1998, Paul Dekkers wrote: | > Device Type Bus Interrupt IO | > eth0 3c509 ISA 11 0x320 | > eth1 ne2000 PCI 12 0x6200 | > eth2 ne2000 ISA 7 0x300 | > eth3 ne2000 PCI 9 0x6000 (recently replaced) | > eth4 ne2000 PCI 10 0x6100 | > eth5 ne2000 ISA 5 0x340 | | > Is this at all possible under FreeBSD? And with my current CD-set, 2.2.1, | > can I still use all of these cards, and route between them, and do natd | > for all of the networks via eth0 (for about 50 clients max at a time I | > think)... | | The most I've used is 4 nics but there shouldn't be any problem | with the above. I have one machine routing a combination of RFC1918 I was just wondering if the 3com nic would work... I still use 2.2.1 you know... (maybe guy an upgrade???) | address space and public space for about 20 sw developers. Oh, it's | also acting as a firewall permitting only established TCP connections | incoming. The client has a T1 connection and everyone is really happy did you use the standard firewall rules for this? | with the system's performance. It is a P166 with 32meg but that is | probably overkill. did you use natd? were there any other services working on the machine? | > By the way, the machine is a pentium-60, with 16 Mb's of memory (It was | > running fine for a year of two with slackware 3.1, and bootpd, but since | > the network card went defect, the problems kept coming... and never went | > away... (can there be some hardware failure?)) | | Going from stable for two years to daily reboots does suggest a | hardware problem :) Did you take a power hit? I have a new powerr supply, is that what you mean? I also replaces one of the network cards. Can it cause crashes like these? By the way: please send any replies as a cc to me, because I'm not subscribed tot the list anymore (forgot to tell you that when I sent my last mail...) Paul -- Paul Dekkers E-Mail: To err is human, to moo bovine To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message